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A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Young People and Gambling-Related Harm (2019)
Journal Article
Keatley, D., Parke, A., Townsend, E., Markham, C., & Clarke, D. (2019). A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Young People and Gambling-Related Harm. Journal of Gambling Issues, 43,

Gambling is a worldwide issue that requires continued, extensive investigation. Most people have gambled at some point in their lives, and many do so without incurring problems. However, a number of individuals do experience gambling-related harm, an... Read More about A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Young People and Gambling-Related Harm.

Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors (2019)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., & Lawrence, C. (2019). Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors. TPM: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 26(4), 639-651. https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM26.4.10

The conversion rate of 1st time donors to their 2nd and 3rd donation is low creating a significant problem to transfusion services. We hypothesise that feelings of warm-glow associated with donating blood, contribute to the differentiation between 1... Read More about Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors.

Frequency- and state-dependent effects of hippocampal neural disinhibition on hippocampal local field potential oscillations in anaesthetised rats (2019)
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Gwilt, M., Bauer, M., & Bast, T. (2019). Frequency- and state-dependent effects of hippocampal neural disinhibition on hippocampal local field potential oscillations in anaesthetised rats

Reduced inhibitory GABA function, so-called neural disinhibition, has been implicated in cognitive disorders, including schizophrenia and age-related cognitive decline. We previously showed in rats that hippocampal disinhibition by local microinfusio... Read More about Frequency- and state-dependent effects of hippocampal neural disinhibition on hippocampal local field potential oscillations in anaesthetised rats.

Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England (2019)
Journal Article
Sallis, A., Gold, N., Agbebiyi, A., James, R. J. .., Berry, D., Bonus, A., …Chadborn, T. (2019). Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz134

Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world (2019)
Journal Article
Wu, W., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12513

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we propose a new framework for investigating how accurately and by what process people read others' minds—a process that requires perceivers to make a retrodictive inference. In this context, we discuss... Read More about Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world.

Can Cartoons Which Depict Autistic Characters Improve Attitudes Towards Autistic Peers? (2019)
Journal Article
Engel, C. S., & Sheppard, E. (2020). Can Cartoons Which Depict Autistic Characters Improve Attitudes Towards Autistic Peers?. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1007–1017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04318-0

This study aimed to assess the efficacy of two cartoons which depict autistic characters in improving attitudes towards autistic peers in two separate studies. Forty-six children participated in study 1 (4–7 years), and 47 children participated in st... Read More about Can Cartoons Which Depict Autistic Characters Improve Attitudes Towards Autistic Peers?.

Number of subjects required in common study designs for functional GABA magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human brain at 3 Tesla (2019)
Journal Article
Sanaei Nezhad, F., Lea?Carnall, C. A., Anton, A., Jung, J., Michou, E., Williams, S. R., & Parkes, L. M. (2020). Number of subjects required in common study designs for functional GABA magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human brain at 3 Tesla. European Journal of Neuroscience, 51(8), 1784-1793. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14618

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a research tool for measuring the concentration of metabolites such as γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate in the brain. MEGA‐PRESS has been the preferred pulse sequence for GABA measurements due to low p... Read More about Number of subjects required in common study designs for functional GABA magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human brain at 3 Tesla.

Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2019)
Journal Article
Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Sarmanova, A., Fernandes, G. S., Frowd, N., Swaithes, L., Stocks, J., …Walsh, D. A. (2020). Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28(2), 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2019.11.004

© 2019 The Authors Objectives: We investigated whether baseline scores for a self-report trait linked to central mechanisms predict 1 year pain outcomes in the Knee Pain in the Community cohort. METHOD: 1471 participants reported knee pain at baselin... Read More about Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.

Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample (2019)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S. A., Gould, K., Townsend, E., Pelton, M., Robertson, A. E., & Rodgers, J. (2020). Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(10), 3638–3648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04323-3

The current study explored whether people who camouflage autistic traits are more likely to experience thwarted belongingness and suicidality, as predicted by the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS). 160 undergraduate students (86.9%... Read More about Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample.

Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App (2019)
Journal Article
Pitchford, N. J., & Outhwaite, L. A. (2019). Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02633

Previous research has shown that a specific interactive app, designed to support the development of early mathematical skills and delivered on hand-held tablets, is effective at raising mathematical attainment in young children in low-and high-income... Read More about Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App.

Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae (2019)
Journal Article
McWilliams, D. F., Rahman, S., James, R., Ferguson, E., Kiely, P., Young, A., & Walsh, D. (2019). Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae. BMC Rheumatology, 3, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-019-0100-9

Background RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and pain flares are discrete ent... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae.

Data showing regional differences in rat brain monoaminergic function (2019)
Journal Article
Nelson, A. .., & Cassaday, H. (2019). Data showing regional differences in rat brain monoaminergic function. Data in Brief, 27, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104814

Chemical neurotransmitters (such as dopamine) modulate cognitive function via ascending projections to various cortical and sub-cortical brain regions. This report describes and links to a relatively large dataset (up to N=112) compiled from control... Read More about Data showing regional differences in rat brain monoaminergic function.

Cultivating virtue in postgraduates: An empirical study of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative (2019)
Journal Article
Brant, J., Lamb, M., Burdett, E., & Brooks, E. (2019). Cultivating virtue in postgraduates: An empirical study of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative. Journal of Moral Education, 49(4), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2019.1682977

Although virtue ethics has emerged as an influential ethical theory within the academy, universities have not generally taken up the practical task of virtue cultivation. Some academics even resist the effort altogether. In response, this article pre... Read More about Cultivating virtue in postgraduates: An empirical study of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative.

A Systematic and Methodological Review of Attentional Biases in Eating Disorders: Food, Body, and Perfectionism (2019)
Journal Article
Ralph-Nearman, C., Achee, M., Lapidus, R., Stewart, J. L., & Filik, R. (2019). A Systematic and Methodological Review of Attentional Biases in Eating Disorders: Food, Body, and Perfectionism. Brain and Behavior, 9(12), Article e01458. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1458

Objective: The current systematic and methodological review aimed to critically review existing literature utilizing implicit processing, or automatic approach- and/or avoidance-related attentional biases between eating disorder (ED) and nonclinical... Read More about A Systematic and Methodological Review of Attentional Biases in Eating Disorders: Food, Body, and Perfectionism.

Alterations in functional brain networks in depressed patients with a suicide attempt history (2019)
Journal Article
Jung, J., Choi, S., Han, K., Kim, A., Kang, W., Paik, J., …Ham, B. (2020). Alterations in functional brain networks in depressed patients with a suicide attempt history. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 964–974. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0560-z

Suicide is a major challenge in public health and is strongly associated with major depressive disorder (MDD). Despite recent neuroimaging developments, the neural correlates of suicide behavior in patients with MDD remain unclear. Independent compon... Read More about Alterations in functional brain networks in depressed patients with a suicide attempt history.

Dynamic Facial Models for Video-Based Dimensional Affect Estimation (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Song, S., Sánchez-Lozano, E., Kumar Tellamekala, M., Shen, L., Johnston, A., & Valstar, M. (2019). Dynamic Facial Models for Video-Based Dimensional Affect Estimation. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) (1608-1617). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00200

Dimensional affect estimation from a face video is a challenging task, mainly due to the large number of possible facial displays made up of a set of behaviour primitives including facial muscle actions. The displays vary not only in composition but... Read More about Dynamic Facial Models for Video-Based Dimensional Affect Estimation.

Effects of childhood trauma, daily stress, and emotions on daily cortisol levels in individuals vulnerable to suicide. (2019)
Journal Article
O'Connor, R. C., O'Carroll, R. E., O'Connor, D. B., Branley-Bell, D., Green, J. A., & Ferguson, E. (2019). Effects of childhood trauma, daily stress, and emotions on daily cortisol levels in individuals vulnerable to suicide. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(1), 92-107. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000482

Objectives: Suicide is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, has been identified as one potential risk factor. Evidence has indicated that childhood trauma i... Read More about Effects of childhood trauma, daily stress, and emotions on daily cortisol levels in individuals vulnerable to suicide..

The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans (2019)
Journal Article
Alarcon, D. E., & Bonardi, C. (2020). The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(5), 645-653. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819887725

Using a human Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) task, Alarcón and Bonardi showed that the selective elevation of instrumental responding produced by excitatory transfer cues was reduced when these cues were presented with a conditioned inhibit... Read More about The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans.

Intraperitoneal 8-OH-DPAT reduces competition from contextual but not discrete conditioning cues (2019)
Journal Article
Cassaday, H., & Thur, K. (2019). Intraperitoneal 8-OH-DPAT reduces competition from contextual but not discrete conditioning cues. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 187, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2019.172797

The effects of the serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT; 0.2 and 0.4 mg/kg i.p.) were examined in trace conditioning (Experiment 1) and overshadowing (Experiment 2) procedures. Both experi... Read More about Intraperitoneal 8-OH-DPAT reduces competition from contextual but not discrete conditioning cues.